[Pound Mailing List] Performance problems with debian sarge version of pound (1.8.2)

Helle there,

My name is Bernhard Grün, I am from Germany and I am one of the
administrators of http://www.gesichterparty.de/ . This is a quite
large party community site that runs pound to balance the web traffic
across backend servers (3 backends at the moment). In average we have
about 700 requests per second. Pound is already on its own dedicated
server (Pentium D 805, 1 GB of RAM)
Now the problem is that we can't use pound to log the requests anymore
because the load would go to values as high as 10. Without logs we
have values up to 2.
Now the question is how can we optimize pound to use logging again?
Is Pound 2.0.4 faster in that manner? Or should we try to compile
Pound by ourselfs to get a bit more performance?
As logging backend we use syslog-ng on the same machine as pound
resides. It does not need much cpu power in our configuration (about
5-10%) but has to write about 6 to 8 GB of logs in 24 hours.
By the way: we can't use the backend servers to do the logging because
this makes some problems when we try to analyze our logs with awstats.

I really really hope that someone of you has a quite nice idea to help us.

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Best wishes
Bernhard Grün

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